Medisys Compliance

AUGUST 23, 2022

Physicians and Healthcare Providers across the US are always in need of excellent attention to their revenue cycle management, which cannot be disregarded in any situation. The new standards and coding revisions, however, may have a detrimental effect on the reimbursement on the claims submitted. Managing this challenging revenue cycle issues by outsourcing medical billing services works out to be a great option for many providers.

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Bill of Health

AUGUST 23, 2022

By Daniel Goldberg. Too often throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, policymakers have justified controversial policy choices by stating that the world is not arranged in a way to make certain actions feasible. While practical difficulties matter, permitting such difficulties to exhaust the scope of our ethical obligations is a grave mistake that moves us farther away from a just and equitable world.

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Healthcare Dive

AUGUST 25, 2022

The demise of Amazon Care — a month after Amazon announced plans to acquire One Medical for $3.9 billion — signals that the tech giant has again succumbed to inherent challenges facing outsiders in the healthcare space.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 25, 2022

The customer experience and expectations have changed for healthcare providers (HCPs). Live visits have always been central to building relationships with HCPs in medtech, but the global pandemic forced teams to pivot from traditional feet-on-the-street methodology to a new model blending personalization and real-time intelligence into a unique, personalized digital customer experience — one that empowers customers and places them at the center of every interaction whatever their geographi

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Let's discuss the trusty pager—an old favorite that’s losing its shine in hospitals and clinics. While once a staple in hospitals and clinics, pagers now present significant limitations that hinder rather than facilitate communication among healthcare professionals. Healthcare professionals are constantly on the move, and they need communication tools that can keep up with their fast-paced lives.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 22, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic brought telemedicine technology and services to a mainstream audience – like it or not. As it turned out, studies have shown that a great many patients and providers like the flexibility that telemedicine affords. Liz Fobare is vice president of product management at Kareo, a vendor of cloud-based clinical and practice management software for independent healthcare practices and billing companies.

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Healthcare Dive

AUGUST 25, 2022

Prices in the U.S. economy grew 8.5% in July compared to last year, while prices for medical care increased just 4.8%, according to a tracker from the Kaiser Family Foundation and Peterson Center on Healthcare.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 25, 2022

Patients can experience unexpected access and affordability barriers that physicians lack visibility into, but by searching for the early indicators of non-adherence, physicians could act to help patients stay on their treatment plans. Rochester, Michigan-based OptimizeRx Corp., which provides care-focused engagement throughout patient journeys and connects more than 60% of U.S. healthcare providers to their patients, launched a pharmaceutical pilot to identify doctors whose patient treatment pl

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Compliance Now

AUGUST 22, 2022

By: Jennifer Berman, CEO, MZQ Consulting. On Friday, August 19, 2022, the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Treasury (the Departments) issued updated FAQs addressing the No Surprises Act and the Transparency in Coverage Rules. These FAQs directly address an issue related to the Transparency in Coverage Rules (the TiC Rules) that has been causing consternation for employers across the country—are they really required to post a link to their machine-readable files on their publ

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 23, 2022

MaineGeneral Health in Augusta had high, rising readmission rates for congestive heart failure. In January 2020, the organization launched a remote patient monitoring pilot, working with vendor Health Recovery Solutions to monitor CHF patients after discharge from the hospital. THE PROBLEM. Upon discharge, patients often need support to understand their symptoms and warning signs after returning home.

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Healthcare Dive

AUGUST 23, 2022

New filings in a class action lawsuit allege that Philips waited years to disclose the risk of foam used in its sleep apnea machines and respirators, causing illness and injuries.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 23, 2022

Despite the much-needed push toward technologies like cloud computing and artificial intelligence (AI), a Presido survey found healthcare IT leaders are still struggling with cloud adoption issues. Path to cloud slowed by turnover. The push for digital transformation was accelerated by the pandemic, thrusting healthcare IT leaders into the spotlight and forcing them to fast-track their plans over the past few years.

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Bill of Health

AUGUST 26, 2022

By Emily Michiko Morris. Professor Jorge Contreras’ commentary on the Patent Eligibility Restoration Act of 2022 objects to Senator Thom Tillis’ recently introduced bill. Specifically, he argues that proposed inclusion of isolated and purified human genes and other naturally occurring substances as patent eligible subject matter is unnecessary and would both stymie research and obstruct access to medicine.

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Mobi Health News

AUGUST 24, 2022

Neil Lindsay, senior vice president of Amazon Health Services, said the telehealth service was "not a complete enough offering for the large enterprise customers we have been targeting, and wasn’t going to work long-term.

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Speaker: Simran Kaur, Founder & CEO at Tattva Health Inc.

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Healthcare Dive

AUGUST 26, 2022

The Inflation Reduction Act leaves intact a peculiar split in Medicare vaccine coverage that discourages physicians from offering certain vaccines, argues former Moderna Vice President Richard Hughes.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 23, 2022

Following several major healthcare organizations expanding into advanced home-based care , Philadelphia-based Sena Health will help deliver the Salem Acute Care at Home for patients of Salem, New Jersey-based Salem Medical Center. The hospital-at-home startup has the capacity to provide up to 23 hospital-level services at home for medical conditions that would typically require hospital stays as well as care coordinators that are available 24 hours per day, 365 days per year.

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Bill of Health

AUGUST 26, 2022

By? Ameet Sarpatwari , Aviva Wang , Liam Bendicksen , and? Aaron S. Kesselheim. Each month, members of the Program On Regulation, Therapeutics, And Law (PORTAL) review the peer-reviewed medical literature to identify interesting empirical studies, policy analyses, and editorials on health law and policy issues relevant to current or potential future work in the Division.

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HIPAA Journal

AUGUST 22, 2022

In July 2022, 66 healthcare data breaches of 500 or more records were reported to the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights, which is a 5.71% reduction from the 70 data breaches reported in June 2022 and July 2021. While the number of data breaches fell slightly from last month, data breaches are being reported at well over the average monthly rate of 57 breaches per month.

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Healthcare Dive

AUGUST 23, 2022

A disproportionate number of those who stand to lose coverage are children and young adults, according to the agency.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 25, 2022

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 25, 2022

Louisville-based ScionHealth system, the combined LifePoint Health and Kindred Healthcare delivery network, and Cadence, a New York-based healthcare technology company, are implementing a remote patient monitoring platform starting with 18 community hospitals in 12 states. WHY IT MATTERS. With RPM, ScionHealth patients with chronic conditions could spend more time at home with their families, or doing what they love where they live, instead of heading back to the hospital or doctor's office,

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HIPAA Journal

AUGUST 26, 2022

The Department of Health and Human Services’ Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3) has issued a warning to the Healthcare and Public Health Sector (HPH) about a relatively new ransom threat group called Karakurt, which is known to have conducted hacking and extortion attacks on the HPH sector. These attacks are similar to attacks conducted by ransomware gangs, but the group doesn’t bother encrypting data, just steals data and issues a demand to prevent its release.

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Download our 30-minute webinar where we delve into real-life examples of HIPAA violations and preventative measures every organization should know! You will learn: The critical factors that lead to HIPAA violations and how to identify them. Three compelling real-life cases of organizations that faced severe HIPAA penalties. Proven strategies to safeguard YOUR organization against HIPAA violations.

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Healthcare Dive

AUGUST 23, 2022

The organizations allegedly pocketed Medicaid adult expansion program funds meant to be returned to the state, according to a DOJ release.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 22, 2022

WHY IT MATTERS. Along with creating a HIPAA-certified master patient index, the universal identity platform will allow SCHIO to integrate social determinants of health into patient records. SCHIO participates in a community information exchange, Together We Care, a platform designed to compile data on SDOH and bridge the gap on care coordination in Santa Cruz.

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Compliance Now

AUGUST 22, 2022

By: Jennifer Berman, CEO, MZQ Consulting. On Friday, August 19, 2022, the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Treasury (the Departments) issued updated FAQs addressing the No Surprises Act and the Transparency in Coverage Rules. These FAQs directly address an issue related to the Transparency in Coverage Rules (the TiC Rules) that has been causing consternation for employers across the country—are they really required to post a link to their machine-readable files on their publ

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HIPAA Journal

AUGUST 26, 2022

Sensitive information is being shared with data brokers and advertisers for the purpose of serving targeted advertisements, and not just by health apps and fitness trackers. HIPAA-covered entities are also sharing the health data without patient consent, which puts them at risk of regulatory fines and lawsuits. Many consumer health apps collect sensitive health data, including pregnancy and fertility trackers and personal fitness and exercise apps.

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Speaker: Joe Sharpe and James Carlson

Payroll optimization can be one of the most time-consuming and complex factors of small business management. Yet, organizations that crack the code on streamlining employee compensation often discover innovative avenues for growth. With the right strategies in place, outsourcing and streamlining payroll processes can result in substantial time and resource savings.